Syria’s Rebels Hype Their Child Soldier Training

It’s one of those things you’re not supposed to brag about, but Syrian rebels are praising their ability to attract child soldiers and turn them into “killing machines” to use against the Assad government.

“Children are the best soldiers I know,” declared former Syrian Sgt. Abdel Razzaq, a defector who is now training child soldiers to “not be scared of war and not to hesitate when the time comes to kill.”

Razzaq’s “academy,” a former school in a rebel-held part of the Aleppo Province, insists that they do not force anyone into joining, and that they have no shortage of children eager to join up and learn to fight.

UNICEF seemed to back this in their own statements, saying that there was “no active recruitment of children” and that it was rather parents pushing their teenaged children to join the war. International law still prohibits anyone from using child soldiers.

Author: Jason Ditz

4 thoughts on “Syria’s Rebels Hype Their Child Soldier Training”

An idiot will remain idiot for rest of its life.., bad part of it is that the idiots will hurt lots of people, in this case children will suffer, as in churches in us, in England, in Germany hurt children by implanting a hard to forget mental pain for rest of their life. The imbeciles in Syria harm the feature of the country turning them into murderos monster with a scar planted into their mind for rest of their life.., so is the life in a modernized and fashionable social warfare conducted by an idiot/s no matter how you look at it.., that alone shows that although humans call themselves civilized but their action tells the otherwise.., the problem is that these solders are under payroll of the kings and queens and others call themselves a civilized societies…, ?

They posted a video of a child (looked 9-12), being thought how to behead a man with a sword! Salafi sect, that is what this is all about — we can dress it and package it all we want. Supported by the equally sect-like Wahhabis, the official religion of Saudi Arabia. They are trying to remodel Sunni Islam in their image to HATE Shiia Islam. These fantacis today do the killing in Iraq — daily. In Syria, the opus of their crimes can fill a Nuremberg-sized trial, in Libya — they feast on. In Russia they had no qualms killing babies, or theater-full of people. But not a PEEP from our terrorism-fighters, as our dearest friends in Saudi Arabia spread the joys of teaching how to behead some poor soul.